Saturday, 30 November 2013

John Quenneville had a career-high five points
in Friday's win in Moose Jaw

The Brandon Wheat Kings snapped a three-game
losing streak Friday night with an 8-4 victory over the Moose Jaw Warriors.

The Wheat Kings
rallied from a 2-0 deficit by scoring four goals in a three minute and 36
second span early in the second period and went on to a fifth straight victory
over their East Division rivals this season.

“We started
pressuring their defence more than we had in the first period and that seemed
to really force mistakes by their back end, and I thought our guys were really
good around the net,” said Brandon GM/Coach Kelly McCrimmon on CKLQ’s post-game
show, “We had some chances, we got shots, we made some plays and our power-play
scored for us.”

John Quenneville paced the Wheat Kings
offensively with a career-high five points on two goals and three assists while
Jayce Hawryluk added two goals and two helpers.

The Wheat Kings
finished 4-for-8 with the man advantage after going just 1-for-12 on the
power-play during a four-game road trip last week.

“For me, you have
to establish your point shot on the power-play and I think that when you do
that, plays down at the bottom will open up,” said McCrimmon, “Our guys did a
good job with traffic tonight.When you
look at the way we scored our power-play goals, it was good net-front presence.”

Eric Roy had a
goal and two assists for Brandon with Ryan Pulock, Tyler Coulter and Brett Kitt
also scoring for the Wheat Kings.

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